I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
I'm a big believer in sort of sense memory, like using something that you've experienced in order to put yourself in the position that the character is in.
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.
You have to temporarily be the character in order to understand him. It's sort of what they used to call 'shape-shifting.'
I know how to hit a mark without looking. I instinctively know where my eye line should be. That's all 100%. But your character and the story are always different, so the emotional part is not muscle memory. You're still surprised by stuff and get the adrenaline.
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.
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